#misclb

Ria Khan believes she must save her older sister Lena from her impending marriage. After enlisting her friends' help, she attempts to pull off the most ambitious of all wedding heists in the name of independence and sisterhood.

FINALLY watched polite society after missing it in theaters, it's on fandango streaming free with ads. I love it because it's all about a teen girl doing unhinged escalation until she's actually proven to be justified and then she just does hinged escalation. the thing is, the main character is definitely in the wrong, but since she's justified it's a wrong formula right answer situation. which is extremely entertaining to me, and I love seeing a teen girl go kinda nuts. since her career goals is being a stuntwoman obviously I'm extremely biased towards her due to tokusatsu alignment.

I was surprised by how brutal(ish) the fight scenes were, in one of the sister conflicts they're straight up throwing each other through doors and slamming each other's heads in walls. the main character eats shit a LOT, and it kinda reminded me of that one post about how people shy away from whump towards women. but like, executing what people tend to avoid. after I got used to it I kinda liked it, because this is obviously bollywood-style exaggerated action world, many things happen that would probably result in a hospital stay and they just kinda walk it off. so it ended up being more of that emotional 'aw she can't get a win :(' rather than 'this is violence against women??' for me, though I'd imagine your mileage may vary

1. for a game about writers that was presumably written by writers, both the writer characters really don’t feel like writers to me. the fact that there’s zero emphasis on the main characters of their various story ideas makes them feel more like game devs or illustrators, more scenario stuff and concept art rather than writing or prose stuff

2. at one point the sci-fi writer was like ‘no themes, only action’ and I know it was a joke(ish) and mio does do a lot of denial but I was like. that doesn’t work. for prose. there’s a reason why there are john wick movies and video games and comics but not a novelization. because prose and dialogue can’t carry continuous action sequences. also the story was about the sun exploding and people trying to stop it so like, to have the sci fi author treat a story ideas like that as only action is just. incongruous. again, that’d be a video game or movie way to treat it since those are visual mediums...

3. one of my friends said (neutrally) that the writing for the story-within-a-story felt a little barbie movie writing and I agree with that and I think it applies to the overall writing as well. Granted some of the story ideas are from when they were kids but not all of them

4. I prefer older characters but genuinely the way it’s written and how the characters are it feels like I’d take less issue if the main characters were high schoolers. every single one of zoe’s stories have some childhood memory related to her sister? When she’s mid to late 20s that gets immersion-breaking but if she was 15 I wouldn’t bat an eye. hell I wouldn’t even think much of mio’s ‘no themes only action’ comment.

5. but another way to make it more congruous with writers is if the focus was on concepts rather than stories yknow? ‘Yeah I just wanted to write an action scene’ or ‘I was vaguely thinking up a plot’ rather than This Is A Story I Made

6. It’s kind of like if quick transmigration had no characters

7. EACH SECTION AND BOSS FEELS SO LONG. LIKE RIDICULOUSLY LONG. WAY TOO LONG.

8. They shouldve pigeonholed themselves and made another divorce game. make them exes (even ex friends or ex acquaintances would be juicy). classmates that fell out ten years ago and haven’t been in touch since. Come on

9. Could be more yuriful. We got them sitting on a bench and mio saying ‘you’re the only one who knows this about me’ but the shallow writing interferes with hitting that heated drama and a deeper way they could be foils to each other.